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sitting next to me is my son dr. noha
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Shankman he is a urologist at the
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University of Virginia we have always
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encouraged Noah since he's a little boy
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to become a physician the joke in the
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family is we put a tape under his pillow
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that said I want to be a doctor I want
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to be a doctor
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as my mother said I'm dr. Noah Shenkman
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and I'm here at the University of
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Virginia where I have a dream job I get
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to teach academic medicine to
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undergraduate and graduate medical
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trainees and I also get to practice
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medicine in a high-tech state-of-the-art
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environment wasn't always this easy I
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grew up in New Jersey and to a
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middle-class family in a suburb and we
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didn't have enough money to pay for
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college so like many other people my age
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I chose to go into the army to pay for
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college I was in the military for 21
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years
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I saw service overseas as well as it
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won't to Reed Army Medical Center
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they're always very grateful to be able
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to take care of our nation's wounded
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that face my life ended and my career
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picked up again here at UVA I'm very
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grateful at the University of Virginia
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that I have the opportunity to work with
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the da Vinci surgical robot and I do
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most of my procedures using the robot
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The Da Vinci Surgery is very cool even
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after 10 years working with it
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is still amazing to me the precise and
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technical procedures we can perform
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using the robot that before the robot
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would have taken very large incisions
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and prolonged hospital stays what are
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the advantages of da Vinci surgery well
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for the patient it means much smaller
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incisions less pain and shorter hospital
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stays with a quicker return to their
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regular jobs
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the scientific advantages of The Da
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Vinci including using three-dimensional
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vision which gives us much more accuracy
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and precision in our surgery the wristed
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instruments that The Da Vinci robot uses
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are very precise and allow us to do much
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more accurate surgery than was
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previously performed using just
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conventional laparoscopy
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overall I think that the future of
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surgery is going to be more and more
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robotics and the robot will become more
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and more part of every operating room